Today, as I sip my coffee over breakfast with Spun, listening to Side 2 of The Ventures play Telstar The Lonely Bull I move cautiously. I walk and won’t run. I’m T-4 hours from getting inked with some sort of rendition of ourBlaine Fontana painting by Jason Drager at Cicada Tattoo. We’ve tried a few ideas and all have been a bit too detailed thus resulting in colors bleeding together over time … like this one I worked up, inspired by photos of the underpainting and final piece hanging in our home.

I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. He definitely knows what will age well and what just doesn’t translate well from pixels to ink. Undoubtedly there will be a photo later.